The campaign for legal personhood for the Great Barrier Reef
Finding political and pedagogical value in a spectacular failure of care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4862455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Barcan (0000-0003-1001-9576, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 810-832 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848619886975 |
| OpenAlex | W2987253316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper examines the campaign for legal personhood for the Great Barrier Reef launched by the Environmental Defenders Office of North Queensland in 2014. Although this campaign has been unofficially shelved, the paper argues that it still provides a useful chance to think through the practicality and politics of some of the current experiments in environmental law, especially contemporary attempts to expand legal definitions of personhood. The EDO campaign is held up to critical scrutiny by considering its practical efficacy, environmental merits, conceptual foundations and ethico-political import, especially in relation to Indigenous justice. It argues that such experiments are to be welcomed, whether as immediate opportunities, thought experiments or pressure points, and that public and scholarly discussion of the legal personhood mechanism needs to be alert to the dangers of unknowingly and ironically replicating dominant power relations while seeking to overthrow them, but also of shutting down alternatives at precisely the moment we need them most
Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Law and economics · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Environmental law and policy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Law in Society and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |